Our native-speaking qualified Italian teachers can guide you and your group at your work or at home, at a time convenient to you. Classes can take place on any day of the week - even weekends - morning, afternoon or evening. If needs be, if meeting at your office or home is not suitable, you can take your lessons at the trainer's office. Study materials are supplied for you.
Italian courses of this type are broader and are aimed towards students with a variety of requirements. While all beginner level students will cover survival Italian - needed for short visits to countries where English isn't widely spoken, or if you wish to 'go local'; those studying Italian usually go in different directions at this point, depending on what they need. Those who have benefitted from these Italian classes have been those investing in or buying property overseas, those married to overseas nationals, people setting off on a round-the-world trip, enthusiasts in Italian culture, and those enthusiastic to pass a specific exam in Italian.
These Italian lessons are driven towards people who have a requirement to learn Italian to bolster their work output. For novices, you will find it useful to learn basic greetings and business etiquette; and once you have become more proficient then reading and writing will come to the fore. Typical students include those concerned with import/export, those seeking work in multinational companies, international negotiations, and anyone working with international colleagues or administration. Even on our most rudimentary beginners course, students can expect to finish the course with decent telephone and e-mail Italian, as well as a good enough grip on the language for a short trip to the country.
The Italian courses are also available for 2 or more people studying together (Two-to-One Italian Course or Small Group In-Company Italian Course). All participants must have the same level, the same business or general language needs and be able to study at the same time in the same location. The booking must be made for all participants at the same time. Listen & Learn do not recommend group classes of more than 6-8 people although In-Company Taster Italian Courses can be run with up to 12 people.
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A Romance language used by around 63 million people around the world, Italian is primarily spoken in Italy and regions of Switzerland
Italian is the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary, out of all the Romance tongues
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Il balletto è il genere più antico di danza che si possa studiare nelle accademie.
La sua origine proviene direttamente dall'Italia, dai balli di corte del rinascimento. Ma il genere venne presto ripreso anche dalle corti francesi, che lo svilupparono e lo portarono alla massima espressione durante il XVII-XVIII secolo.
In seguito la danza smise di essere un esercizio di corte e divenne una professione vera e propria. All’inizio tutti i danzatori erano uomini. La prima donna a ballare salì sul palcoscenico nel 1681. Nel 1700 Raoul Feuillet scrisse un libro in cui raccolse le posizioni e i passi base della danza, ancora oggi utilizzati.
I danzatori del XVIII secolo erano coperti da maschere, indossavano grosse parrucche e scarpe col tacco. Le donne indossavano gonne larghe e lunghe, strette nei loro corpetti. Le due migliori ballerine francesi dell’epoca, Marie Camargo e Marie Salle rivoluzionarono il mondo della danza, introducendo scarpe senza tacco, accorciando le gonne rendendole meno ingrombranti e abbandonando le maschere.
Nel 1735 fu fondata l’Accademia Imperiale Russa, che darà poi vita al Russian Ballet, il Balletto Russo. Verso la fine del ‘700 la danza cominciò a subire forti accelerazioni.
Si iniziò ad andare sulle punte e nel 1832 Marie Taglioni ballò tutta “La Sylphide” sulle punte. Questa rappresentazione cambiò moltissimo lo stile dei balletti, nella tecnica, nella storia e nei costumi.
Nel 1956 le grandi compagnie russe, come la compagnia Bolshoi o la compagnia Kirov, cominciarono ad esibirsi in occidente. L’intenso spirito drammatico e il grande virtuosismo tecnico ebbero un fortissimo impatto sul pubblico. È importante citare i grandi nomi di Rudolf Nureyev, diventato poi direttore artistico del Paris Opéra Ballet, di Natalia Makarova o di Mikhail Baryshnikov, poi direttore dell’American Ballet Theatre, a New York City.
A partire dagli anni ’60 il pubblico divenne più vario. Molti giovani cominciarono ad andare a vedere la danza in teatro. Molti balletti classici cominciarono ad essere accompagnati da musica Jazz o addirittura dal Rock’n Roll. Questa trasformazione diede maggiore impulso per lo sviluppo della danza moderna.
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Language learners seeking native speaking teachers are spoilt for choice in Cleveland. Ohio's second largest city and the "most livable" city in the United States according to a 2005 study from The Economist, Cleveland also boasts of substantial ethnic diversity. Once claiming to have the highest concentration of Hungarians outside of Budapest, there are also sizable communities of Polish, Romanians, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians and Lithuanians in Cleveland. If learning an Eastern European language isn't your thing, never fear. There are also significant numbers of people of German, Italian, Arabic, Greek, Korean and Han Chinese ethnicity, which translates into the perfect opportunity to practise with someone else in their mother tongue! Speaking of which, get down to Little Italy, Slavic Village and Tremont and be sure to treat your tongue and taste buds - international cuisine has played a large role in defining the regional cuisine of Cleveland.
